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| steve E Member Since: 06 Mar 2011 Location: Tenby Posts: 2073  
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At 40 I can be a right grumpy b----rd
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6th Mar 2014 7:45am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17588  
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We could of course start a grumpy young whippersnapper thread for our younger contributors.
Someone recently pointed out to me (definitely getting on in years and sometimes grumpy) that one of the good things about getting old is that it greatly reduces the risk of dying young! I am still tyring to convince myself that this is a good thing, but it is a valid point. |
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6th Mar 2014 10:00am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20599
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When your young and go off on one it's worse because it's harder to come down from your temper.
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6th Mar 2014 10:05am |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897  
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I s'pose I became grumpy when bits of me fell off/wore out.
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6th Mar 2014 11:02am |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831 
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Well I'm at the age were young ladies hold the door open for me
 and even ask if I would like them to carry my shopping to the Land Rover but with a stare from SHMBO they walk away  Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to  us off.
Richard |
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6th Mar 2014 12:37pm |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831
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Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to us off.
Richard |
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6th Mar 2014 12:37pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20599
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6th Mar 2014 12:44pm |
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| noworries4x4 Member Since: 24 Dec 2010 Location: Newton Abbot Devon Posts: 1195
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Ask my work mates I have been a grumpy bas###d for years now. If everything is under control you are not going fast enough.
Every Day 16 MY Discovery 4 Commercial Workshop and Escort Vehicle Weekends 07MY L322 TDV8 Vogue SE Series 1 80" 3ltr 6cyl with overdrive No Worries 4X4 |
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6th Mar 2014 9:35pm |
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| shaggydog Member Since: 12 Aug 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 3347 
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I'm not sure if it fits, but I'm afraid I have been diagnosed (by my best friend, work mates, girlfriend, grandparents) with cynicism.
My best mate infact telling me I'm a cynical bar steward for assuming that the new discovery will not be able to be fitted with a winch as a dealer fit, the new freelander be non 4x4 as standard and that the new defender will have airbags! I'm sure that couriers have been covered before but what's the point of having a tracking function if it dosn't update until it has been delivered!!! I ordered something a week ago and if arrived today, however when I checked this morning it said unable to update, however just now it said it had been delivered. YES, I know it was delivered, i signed for it!!!! Also why is courier such a hard word to spell? |
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6th Mar 2014 10:38pm |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831
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Why do most oil seals fail at the same time, Oil slick on the drive yesterday SHMBO took it to our local Indi (good mechanics not just fitters) oil seals on front and rear diffs have failed will need to be replaced and we might as well do both swivels as well as they are leaking.
 Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to us off.
Richard |
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8th Mar 2014 12:28pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20599
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Diff oil seals are a complete an utter pain in the backside, I had one replaced for new ANC it leaked a month or two later yet again.
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8th Mar 2014 1:57pm |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831
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Good news it all should be covered by the extended warranty we have purchased. Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to us off.
Richard |
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8th Mar 2014 2:03pm |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831
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Oh you do fill me hope of a clean drive. The mechanic advised me that that the rubber oil seal does wear a groove out of the drive shaft after 50.000 miles or so. Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to us off.
Richard |
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8th Mar 2014 2:06pm |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831
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Mid March, its 09.00, Sunday and the two kittens have slept in
 and I have this buzzing in my ears, open eye expecting a bee or wasp, no sighting. Now slowly making sense of time and day and its sunny and the fact that the noise is not in my head or close to it I realise that its outside and that the original noise has been joined by a second. I reluctantly get out of a warm bed, stick head through curtains to see not one but three of my neighbour out cutting there lawns.
Its mid March they have all summer to do that why wake me up today. Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to us off.
Richard |
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9th Mar 2014 1:12pm |
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